On Friday, July 23, 2004, 9:05:32 PM, phoyt wrote:
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>> On Friday, July 23, 2004, 7:04:12 PM, Henri wrote:
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>> HS> On Jul 23, 2004, at 00:17, Chris Lilley wrote:
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>>>> They look entirely different on Mac and PC platforms, to take an
>>>> example.
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>> HS> That depends on the display settings.
>>
>> Which PNG images can contain and thus display correctly while GIFs
>> cannot.
>>
ppc> To be a bit more precise, this behaviour of PNG feels like a bug to most
ppc> users.
You should talk to some online clothing retailers. Its a significant
barrier to trade; the amount of returns due to the color not being
anywhere near what ewas on screen is significant.
ppc> The solution is to turn off gamma correction in your PNGs,
ppc> something easily done in Macromedia Fireworks and the GIMP but to my
ppc> knowledge impossible in Photoshop.
That isn't a solution, its a workaround.
The solution is to implement CSS1 correctly, at which point the PNGs and
the CSS colors will match correctly *and* display consistently.
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Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
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